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EvaluationDo you agree or disagree with
American foreign policy from 1930-1941?
• Context – What is going on in the US and in the world in the 1930s? Set the mood
• Thesis – How would you answer this question in 25 words or less?
Agree Disagree
• Do you think the priority should be isolationism?
• Do you think the priority should be the US economy in the midst of the Depression?
• Do you think the priority should arms limitations in the world?
• Do you think the priority should be providing humanitarian support?
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1931)
– Japan violates the charter
of the League of Nations
and invades Manchuria
• US Reaction
– Appeasement:pacification – avoiding
war by making
concessions
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1935)
– Italy invades Ethiopia with bombers and tanks
• US Reaction
– Neutrality Acts: no
American could sail on a
belligerent ship, sell or
transport munitions to a
belligerent, or make
loans to a belligerent
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1936)
– Germany violates the
Treaty of Versailles by
sending troops to the
Rhineland (border with
France)
• US Reaction
– Cash and Carry: belligerents may buy US
products if they pay cash
and transport the
products on their own
ships
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1937)
– Japan invades China
after troops exchange
gunfire at Marco Polo
Bridge and brutally
slaughter 300,000
Chinese civilians.
• US Reaction
– Embargo: Do NOT acknowledge a declaration or war. Halt shipment of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline to Japan
What is your advice?
• Kristallnacht (1938)
– Several dozen Jews lost
their lives and tens of
thousands were arrested
and sent to
concerntration camps
after 7,000 Jewish
businesses, cemeteries,
schools, and homes were
trashed or looted
• US Reaction– Immigration Reform:
Roosevelt asked Congress to allow 12,000-15,000 German refugees who were on visitors visas to be able to stay indefinitely
– BUT, no changes are made to allow more refugees in
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1939)
– Germany annexes
Austria, Sudetenland,
and Czechoslovakia
• US Reaction
– Appeasement:pacification – avoiding
war by making
concessions
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1939)
– Germany begins
blitzkrieg invasion of
Poland, Denmark,
Norway, Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxemburg,
France, and Britain
• US Reaction
– Destroyers for bases: trade 50 WWI destroyers
for right to build 8 bases
in western hemisphere
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1940)
– The French government
falls leaving and the
German Luftwaffe
relentlessly bombs
London.
• US Reaction
– Lend Lease Act: “send
guns not sons” - Loan a
limitless supply of arms
to victims of aggression.
Accounts will be settled
by returning the used
weapons or their
equivalents when the war
is over.
What is your advice?
• Axis Action (1941)
– Japan attacks Pearl
Harbor damaging 200
aircrafts, 19 ships, and
killing 2,200 people
• US Reaction
– FDR’s War Message to Congress: Declare war on Japan
Message to Congresshttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.…It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.…I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
EvaluationDo you agree or disagree with
American foreign policy from 1930-1941?
• Context – What is going on in the US and in the world in the 1930s? Set the mood
• Thesis – How would you answer this question in 25 words or less?
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